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Rules and Regulations
Federal Register Vol. 86, No. 14
Monday, January 25, 2021

This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER
contains regulatory documents having general applicability and legal effect, most of which are keyed to and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, which is published under 50 titles pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 1510.
The Code of Federal Regulations is sold by the Superintendent of Documents.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
8 CFR Part 208
Docket No: USCIS 20200013
RIN 1615AC57

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Executive Office for Immigration Review 8 CFR Part 1208
A.G. Order No. 49752021
RIN 1125AB08

Security Bars and Processing; Delay of Effective Date U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security DHS; Executive Office for Immigration Review, Department of Justice DOJ
ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.
AGENCY:

On December 23, 2020, DHS
and DOJ collectively, the Departments published a final rule to clarify that the danger to the security of the United States statutory bar to eligibility for asylum and withholding of removal encompass certain emergency public health concerns and make certain other changes. The Departments are delaying the rules effective date for 60 days.
DATES: As of January 21, 2021, the effective date of the final rule published at 85 FR 84160 Dec. 23, 2020 is delayed until March 22, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For USCIS: Andrew Davidson, Asylum Division Chief, Refugee, Asylum and International Affairs Directorate, U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services, DHS; telephone 2407213000 not a toll-free call.
For EOIR: Lauren Alder Reid, Assistant Director, Office of Policy,
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Executive Office for Immigration Review, telephone 703 3050289 not a toll-free call.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background and Basis for Delay On December 23, 2020, the Departments published a final rule Security Bars rule to amend existing regulations to clarify that in certain circumstances there are reasonable grounds for regarding an alien as a danger to the security of the United States or reasonable grounds to believe that an alien is a danger to the security of the United States based on emergency public health concerns generated by a communicable disease, making the alien ineligible to be granted asylum in the United States under section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act or the protection of withholding of removal under that Act or subsequent regulations because of the threat of torture. See Security Bars and Processing, 85 FR 84160 et seq.
Dec. 23, 2020.
On January 20, 2021, the White House Chief of Staff issued a memorandum asking agencies to consider delaying, consistent with applicable law, the effective dates of any rules that have published and not yet gone into effect, for the purpose of allowing the Presidents appointees and designees to review questions of fact, law, and policy raised by those regulations. See Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies from Ronald A. Klain, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, Re:
Regulatory Freeze Pending Review Jan.
20, 2021. This action is consistent with that memorandum.
The Departments have good cause to delay this rules effective date without advance notice and comment because a permissible path to implementation of the rule is not apparent due to a preliminary injunction against a related rule. On December 11, 2020, the Departments issued a rule titled Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review.1 On January 8, 2021, a district court preliminarily enjoined the Departments from implementing, enforcing, or applying 1 See
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the December 11 rule . . . or any related policies or procedures. 2
Implementing the Security Bars rule will not be viable given this injunction.
Most prominently, the Security Bars rule relies upon the framework for applying bars to asylum during credible fear processing that was established in the December 11 rule.3 That is not possible given the injunction. The regulatory text of significant portions of the Security Bars rule is also embedded within and repeats regulatory text that was established by the December 11
rule.4
To implement the full Security Bars ruleand effectively reinsert or rely upon provisions that the Pangea court has enjoinedmight run afoul of the courts injunction. Because the courts injunction is already effective and it would be impracticable to engage in notice and comment procedures in advance of the scheduled January 22
effective date, the Departments are proceeding with this final rule.5
The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, David P. Pekoske, having 2 See Pangea Legal Servs. v. Dept of Homeland Security, No. 2009253JD, 2021 WL 75756, at 7
N.D. Cal. Jan. 8, 2021. The Pangea court held that plaintiffs showed a likelihood that Chad F. Wolf, who approved the December 11 rule in his capacity as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, did not have valid authority to act in that capacity. See id.
6. Following the courts ruling, Peter T. Gaynor and Mr. Wolf took steps to ratify the December 11
rule. See DHS Delegation No. 23028, Delegation to the Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans to Act on Final Rules, Regulations, and Other Matters Jan. 12, 2021; Chad F. Wolf, Ratification Jan. 14, 2021. By issuing this rule, the Departments state no position on Mr. Gaynor or Mr.
Wolfs actions or authority, the outcome thus far in Pangea, or the effects of any further actions.
3 See, e.g., 85 FR at 84176 As noted, the Security Bars final rule is not, as the NPRM
proposed, modifying the regulatory framework to apply the danger to the security of the United States bars at the credible fear stage because, in the interim between the NPRM and the final rule, the December 11 rule did so for all of the bars to eligibility for asylum and withholding of removal.; id. at 84189 describing changes made in the Security Bars rule to certain regulatory provisions not addressed in the proposed rule as necessitated by the intervening promulgation of the December 11 Rule..
4 Compare, e.g., 85 FR at 8419484198 revising 8 CFR 208.30, 235.6, 1208.30, and 1235.6, among other provisions and 85 FR at 8039080401 same.
5 See 5 U.S.C. 553bB, d providing an exception from the notice and comment requirements when an agency for good cause finds . . . that notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest, and providing additional exceptions with respect to the delayed effective date.

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